Non-coercion would avert civil war, and compromise crush out both abolitionism and secession.
The spirit of intervention assumed the form of abolitionism because slavery was odious in name and by association to the Northern mind, and because it was that which most obviously marks the different civilizations of the two sections.
For while the latter believed in non-interference with slavery, as long as the Constitution authorized its existence, Herndon, although acting nominally with the Whig party up to 1853, struck out for Abolitionism pure and simple.
He saw that abolitionism was only a step in the problem, that beyond freedom was the greater question that still terrifies the Union.
Mingled with the essential spirit of justice pervadingAbolitionism was the growth of the opinion that slavery was a social and political evil.
Lincoln under the pretense of having business in Tazewell County drove out of town in his buggy, and did not return until the apostles of Abolitionism had gone to their homes.
Until then, abolitionism was a hated eastern conception.
He declared that abolitionism was not so dangerous as people thought; that he avowed it without any fear; that he had frequently attended abolition meetings in the North, and was none the worse for it in the slave states, &c.
The merchants and factors in the South did not as a class desire Disunion, and they were made to believe that the suppression of Abolitionism in the North would restore harmony and good feeling.
Abolitionism was but another name for the Republican party, and in business circles in the free State that party had come to represent the source of all our trouble.
Abolitionism in this country first originated in, and has been sustained by, foreign interference, and religious fanaticism.
It is true that I have hastily glanced at slavery in all its bearings, but it was the fell spirit of abolitionism which first attracted my attention, and induced me to investigate the subject.
Abolitionism cannot be of God, because its views, plans, and machinations, are in direct opposition to the revealed will of God.
Many persons suppose that abolitionism is of modern origin; but it is an error, for we learn from the Epistle of Paul to Timothy, that it was agitating the church of Christ in the apostolic ages.
The leaven of Abolitionism worked slowly in Illinois society.
So far as I am advised and believe, he received no vote except from persons allied to Abolitionism or Know-Nothingism.
It is the speeches of Southern men, representing slave States, going to an extreme, breathing a fanaticism as wild and as reckless as that of the Senator from New Hampshire, which creates Abolitionism in the North.
By an almost unanimous vote, the General Assembly adopted joint resolutions in 1837 which condemned Abolitionism as "more productive of evil than of moral and political good.
Among the commanders holding these views are some who have never had any affinity with what is called abolitionism or with Republican party policies, but who held them purely as military opinions.
But you find that somehow they like slavery in the concrete, and dislike abolitionismwhen it tries to set free the slave.
Abolitionism asserts that it is the clear duty of Congress to abolish slavery instantly in that District, without regard to what may occur afterwards in consequence of that act.
Again he might say that this principle of abolitionism was contrary to all the experience which America had acquired as a nation on this subject.
It had been said thatabolitionism was "quackery," only four years old.
Meanwhile the South had wellnigh forgotten the actual significance of the teachings of its early political prophets, and their renewal in the shape of abolitionism was, as might have been expected, strange and unwelcome.
The enemies of the Union started forth on every side--Abolitionism here; secessionism there; acquisition and filibusterism elsewhere.
Mr. Trollope states the worn-out cant that the secessionists of the South have been aided and abetted by the fanatical abolitionism of the North.
They have proved by their acts that abolitionism had been calumniated in accusing it of menacing the unity of the United States.
This seems little understood by those who reproach abolitionism with having been a party militant; to hear them, the true way of bringing about the abolition of slavery was to let it alone: to attack was to exasperate it.
I am far from believing that all the acts of abolitionism are worthy of approbation; I say only that it would be puerile to repudiate a great party for the sole reason that it has the bearing of a party.
The religious principles of Abolitionism have nothing to do with sects.
But we do mean to say, that Abolitionism emanates from this source, and that, like the gradual progress of all error, it is only a stage to the admission of the full sweep of the doctrine.
It requires but the slightest observation to justify the position we have assumed, as to the connexion between Abolitionism and other violent reforms.
Abolitionism is now identified with an unconstitutional, and as we have proved, seditious interference of a combination of people in the free States, with the domestic condition of the slave States.
Every stage of the progress of Abolitionism hitherto, instead of allaying those apprehensions, has only served to augment them.
It justified slavery in the South; it encouraged abolitionism in the North; it suggested interference and regimentation; it counseled forgiveness and vengeance.
It is not socialism nor abolitionism that has won; nor is it the North that has conquered.
Because Clay was not unreservedly against annexation the Abolitionists drew from the Whigs in New York State enough votes, casting them for Birney, to defeat Clay and elect Polk; and now Abolitionism was a factor in national politics.
Listen to me, then, whilst I endeavor to wipe from the fair character of Abolitionism such unfounded accusations.
Abolitionism would put their souls in the stead of the free colored man's and obey the apostolic injunction, to "remember them that are in bonds as bound with them.
Radical abolitionism had not yet blinded them to the general and paramount interests of the Union.
Is it understood that anti-abolitionism is a passport to popular favor, and that the action of this District shall present for that favor to the public a gentleman upon this hobby?
But suppose, sir, that abolitionism is dead, is liberty dead also and slavery triumphant?
Is abolitionism DEAD--or is it just awaking into life?
Abolitionism had apparently been reduced to such a position that it could lead to nothing but civil war.
The vote of thanks given to Parker in 1855 by the hearers of his anti-slavery lecture in Delaware, showed that abolitionism would eventually become predominant in the Senate, as it was already in the House of Representatives.
There was little freedom of speech for unpopular opinions in America in 1835, when Channing declared that the mob against Garrison had made abolitionism "the cause of Freedom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abolitionism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
